Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
Mark Twain
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan J. Perlis
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
Bjarne Stroustrup
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Anonymous
This is important, and a little hard to understand. English is useful because it's a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of possible ways).
Larry Wall
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis